Bryce etc,
I brought down LATEST.EXE of 30 May 2006 20:23 and put it into the full
download of Inkscape-0.43+0.44pre0-1.win32.
The bug "yipdw 1489175 Win2K crash: entrypoint FreeAddrInfo not found"
appears to have been fixed.
Inkscape opens normally.
Erik
Win 2000 sp4.